Turkish Political Commentator Hüseyin Güneş Incites against Turkey’s Jews: We Are All Slaves to Them; We Strive to Get Rid of IsraelTurkish political commentator Hüseyin Güneş said that "we are all slaves to the Jews," who "control us economically." In a May 17 interview on the Turkish Channel 9/Qanat TV, he said that the Turkish Jews had betrayed their country in WWI, and that they "have been traitors throughout history." Güneş said that “we are striving to get rid of Israel,” and complained that U.S. takes Gulf money to support Israel.

Former Grand Mufti of Lebanon Mohammed Rashid Qabbani Issues Fatwa: It Is an Islamic Duty to Wage Jihad to Liberate Palestine from the "Foreign Jewish Occupiers," All Peace Agreements with Them Null and Void Former Grand Mufti of Lebanon Mohammed Rashid Qabbani issued a fatwa according to which Palestinians and all Arabs and Muslims have a duty to wage Jihad "to liberate Palestine from the occupation of the Jews of the Balfour Declaration." Sheikh Qabbani compared the liberation of Palestine today to the Jihad waged by the Prophet Muhammad, by Omar ibn Al-Khattab, and by Saladin, and declared that Islam forbids the Palestinians and all Arab and Muslim countries "to surrender, to reconcile, to make peace treaties, or to concede a single inch of Arab Palestinian land to the foreign Jewish occupiers." Sheikh Qabbani's address aired on Al-Mayadeen TV on May 16.

Israelis protest in support of and against deportation of illegal migrants

The infiltration of migrants has become a recent flashpoint in Israel. Migrants who choose deportation will get cash payments of $3,500; those who do not agree to deportation face incarceration in Israel.

Students and teachers from Seminar Ha'kibuzim protest against the deportation of African asylum seekers, in Tel Aviv, January 24, 2018. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/ FLASH90

(February 25, 2018 / JNS) Israelis took to the streets both to support and oppose the deportation of Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers who illegally entered Israel.

Protests against the deportations by social-justice organizations recorded approximately 15,000 attendees this weekend. A counterprotest in favor of deportations organized by the right-wing non-governmental organization Im Tirtzu also recorded thousands of attendees.

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The infiltration of migrants has become a recent flashpoint in Israel. Israel has reportedly entered into agreements with Rwanda and Uganda to accept migrants once they are deported from Israel. Those migrants who choose to be relocated will receive cash payments of $3,500. Migrants who do not agree to deportation face incarceration in Israeli prisons.

While anti-deportation protests have received increased media attention, polls indicate that most Israelis support deporting illegal infiltrators.